Diseases of the skin : their description, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Radcliffe Crocker.

  • Henry Radcliffe Crocker
Date:
1888
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Credit: Diseases of the skin : their description, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Radcliffe Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5. Mercury bicyanide gr. 2 or more to 53 of water. Paint it on in acne rosacea, and after two or three minutes wipe it off (Burgess). Mercury. Red Iodide. Gr. 10 to gr. 20 to glycerine 3SS. Use in lupus and syphilis. Mercury Perchloride 5j> collodion 5vi. Lupus and syphilis (Startin). 6. Barium.—Barium sulphide 5ij, zinc oxide and starch each 5iij, depilatory. Make into a paste with water, and put on thin coating for ten to fifteen minutes; then clean off and apply bland ointment (Duhring); or the same proportion of sulphide of sodium may be used; but depilatories are not Tecommended ; they often excite dermatitis, and are no better than shaving. 7. Iodine.—Linimentum B.P. (1 in 8 of spirit), or a watery solution, iodine 5ss, potassium iodide 5j, water §j. In glandular enlargements or lupus. Coster's paint, or paste, is iodine 5j or 5ij to colourless oil of tar 5]; apply with a stiff brush. Excellent for the early stage of ringworm. Morrant Baker prefers creasote, and Alder Smith oil of cade, to the ol. picis liquid. 8. Lime. Vienna paste.—Equal parts of unslaked lime and caustic potash ; make into a paste with alcohol immediately before using. For lupus vulgaris, scrofuloderma, and syphilis. 9. Potash, Caustic, solid stick, or saturated solution. For same as Vienna paste. Weaker solutions gr. 10 to 30 to 3] may be painted on, and washed off in a few seconds, to clean the surface, in chronic inflammations, e.g., some cases of sycosis. 10. Silver Nitrate, solid stick ; very useful for lupus vulgaris, gr. 10-40 in spirit of nitrous eether 5). May be painted on in some cases of eczema, especially about anus and genitals, and in some other chronic inflammations. 11. Zinc—Zinc chloride 5iv, liq. opii. sed. (Batley) 5iv, starch Jjss, water 5j. Make a paste (Middlesex formula). Lupus, epithelioma, rodent ulcer, etc. 12. Zinc nitrate 1 part, bread mass 2 parts. For same. 13. Salicylic Acid.—Glycerine % salicylic acid enough to make a thick cream. To be applied on lint or painted on. For warts, lupus, and epidermic thickenings; 5j of carbolic acid or creasote may be added to diminish the painfulness of the application. 14. Zinc and Mercury.—Starch 37 parts, wheat flour 112 parts, perchloride of mercury 1 part, dry chloride of zinc 110 parts, iodol 10 parts, croton chloral 10 parts, bromide of camphor 10 parts, crystallised carbolic acid 10 parts. Mix them in a mortar in powder, then add gradually enough distilled water to form a homogeneous paste of the consistence of putty. It will keep a long time. The hands should be wetted when applying it, and the paste allowed to remain on from six to twenty-four hours (Jules Felix). LOTIONS. STIMULANT LOTIONS. Tar. 1. Liq. carbonis detergens Jij, solution of the subacetate of lead 5ij, rose- water Sviij. For eczema and pruritus 2. Liq. carbonis detergens, diluted 1 to 4 or 1 to 8 with water or spirit may be painted on in chronic eczema. 3. Liquor carbonis detergens Jij, calamine lotion gviij.